Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Cellular collective behavior in spatially complex environments
Emily Hager (Boston University)
Collective behaviors are processes in which large-scale patterns arise from fundamentally local interactions among individuals; in biological systems, these can be organisms, cells, or molecules. A critical open…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Of the Surface of Things: Ice, Drops, Bubbles, Singularities
Saurabh Nath (MIT)
Place a drop of water on an icy surface—it crystallizes at the point of contact, and a slow ice front steadily grows upwards. Place a bubble instead, and a burst of ice crystals erupts across its interface, far from…
High Energy Theory Seminar: CMB limits on decaying dark matter: going beyond the ionization threshold
Wenzer Qin (NYU)
The temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been used to set constraints on decaying dark matter models down to keV masses. In this talk, I will discuss recent work to…
Colloquium: Energetic Optimization During Cell Division
Michael Murrell (Yale University)
Living systems are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium through the continuous consumption of ambient energy. This energy is invested in the formation of complex, internal macromolecular structures and diverse…
Physics and Astronomy Postponed Exam
January 21, 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm I Room A6 DRL.
Astrophysics Seminar: Mapping the near-infrared sky with SPHEREx
Jordan Mirocha (JPL)
SPHEREx, NASA's next MIDEX mission, will launch in February and map the entire sky in 102 near-infrared spectral channels from 0.75-5 microns. This rich dataset will be used for a wide variety of science, including…
Winter 2025 - Lab Start Dates
0150, 0102, and 1250 - Jan 27th
0171 - Jan 29th
0101 and 0151 - Feb 3rd
High Energy Theory Seminar: Holography and symmetries of supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories
Oren Bergman (Israel Institute of Technology)
I will derive the symmetry theories of the 3d N=6 and N=5 supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter theories from holography.
Focusing on a specific variant of the N=5 theory that has a non-abelian…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Shot noise in a strange metal
Doug Natelson (Rice University)
Strange metal behavior has been observed in materials ranging from high-temperature superconductors to heavy fermion metals. In conventional metals, current is carried by quasiparticles; although it has been…